The Port of Odessa says its throughput in January-June totaled 12.24 million tons, up by 5% YoY. In the reporting period the port handled 4,336,000 tons of grain (+12.3%), 252,570 TEUs of containerized cargo (+9.9%), 1,169,600 tons of liquid bulk cargo (+36.7%), and 2,715,300 tons of ferrous metal (against 3,132,900 tons in H1 2016). In…
Boryspil International Airport is resuming negotiations with the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair in a new format, the airport’s director general, Pavlo Riabikin, has reported on Facebook. “I have met with representatives of the country’s leading television media. Such interaction with journalists helped deeply consider urgent issues without unnecessary emotions. I’m confident that we managed to…
Transit of Russian natural gas through Ukraine’s gas transportation system (GTS) has fallen by 24.7% since July 11, according to live data from Ukrtransgaz. If on July 1-10 the average daily transit through the Ukrainian GTS amounted to 256.7 million cubic meters, on July 11 a drop to 193.4 million cubic meters was witnessed. At…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman believes that during the negotiations with the largest low cost airline in Europe Ryanair (Ireland) Ukraine should offer the airline not to quit plans to fly to Lviv. “I think that it is appropriate to make an offer during the negotiations that they are left in Lviv, as the local…
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, since the beginning of the new season-2017-2018 and as of July 12 Ukraine supplied 575 thousand tons of grain crops to foreign markets. In particular, the exports of wheat totaled 150 thousand tons, barley – 75 thousand tons, and corn – 350 thousand tons. In addition,…
Ukraine has fully used its annual quotas for the European Union’s duty-free exports for nine commodity groups in 2017, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club Association (UCAB). In particular, the quotas for honey, sugar, cereals, flour, processed tomatoes, grape and apple juice, chicken meat, and grain, namely wheat, maize, and barley…
More than UAH 16 billion will be spent on road construction in Ukraine this year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “We are confident that more than UAH 16 billion will be used for road construction where it has never been done in Ukraine this year so that people could feel we have resources to…